Louie Gohmert

The talk of tapping into the strategic petroleum reserve is nonsensical when we have a reserve that is strategically placed with a lot more oil in it.

The United States should not voluntarily subject itself to the whims or happenings of unstable foreign countries.

It may be an inconvenient truth but there is still a de facto moratorium against serious offshore drilling in the waters that surround the United States.

Statistics on a page simply don't reflect the lives that have been changed by this embargo.

I think a much bigger picture here is what is our administration doing in terms of actually deliberately allowing, if not driving, oil prices, gasoline prices up to fit a larger ideological belief.

We, in Texas, have lost approximately 2,500 jobs, 622 million in gross domestic product, 153 million in wages.

The Obama Administration's biggest financial supporter, George Soros, we know has his biggest investment in Brazilian drilling.

This Committee will not sit idly by.

I don't know about the facts that Ranking Member Markey was mentioning.

Tomorrow, we're going to take up another short-term continuing resolution. In the meantime, today, tomorrow, the next day, we will be borrowing $4 billion a day that we don't have to pay the deficit that this administration is running…

These are trying times. Charles Dickens said ``the best of times and the worst of times.'' More freedoms than any nation has ever enjoyed in the history of the world are right here in this country. We have been blessed so richly. And lest…

Has anybody here ever heard of an entire neighborhood being wiretapped under 206?

I appreciate your all's testimony.

And we were advised that it was the first time in America's history that there was not an open rule where you could bring, anybody could bring amendments to the floor and offer them to a bill. Now, it's not a pretty thing to watch, all…

These are serious times in which we are living. Supposedly there is a Chinese curse that says may you live in interesting times. We certainly do. I have really been shocked that the mainstream media has not done more in the way of stories…

Are you supporting efforts to try to get more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?

This is a serious time, not just in American history but in world history; and it's a little difficult to get beat up from our friends from the other side of the aisle over what's going on right now over a continuing resolution when there…

It would be a great thing and a great help to Hispanic community to enforce legal immigration to protect Hispanics.

Because people come from all over, and we enforce the law more fairly than any nation in history.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We hear about a cozy relationship, and that's interesting because when you go back and look at the worst oil spill in American history from British Petroleum, BP, and why it took this administration so long to come…

I reserve the right to object because just to sit here and listen, after having spent the last 4 years dealing with the most closed Congress--the last Congress, in fact, had more closed rules than any Congress in American history--and then…

I was referring to Common Cause that stirred up demonstrations that created racial epithets and threats to Supreme Court justices.

The right to regulate is far different from the right to mandate.

There have been some great questions raised about these provisions in the Patriot Act; but it's hard to believe that for all of last year, when Democrats had the majority in this body, that if those same arguments had been made to Speaker…

At Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1978-1980, we saw the military being cut, demoralized and marginalized. Our U.S. embassy in Iran was attacked and our diplomats taken hostage, while the sad administration wrung its hands and begged Iran to let…